It has a "replica" of what looks like a famous NY street pattern and looks just like it (well like the hollywood versions I have seen anyway) and not a real ad in the entire game.
Sorry, but the story ain't about realistic billboards in the game, advertising don't work that way. The Coca Cola company doesn't want that crushed rusty can that just rolled away to bear its logo, it wants you to sit watching their latest ad for 30 seconds while you want to play the game.
They don't want you to be a F1 driver, watching a yellow line that is your cars hood and maybe see the shell logo clearly in a flash in a replay. They want you to see their commercial, for 30 seconds and possibly more.
So yes, real world games CAN gain some immersion by having real world ads in it. But that is NOT what advertisers want, the opposite in fact. GTA did NOT have permission to use REAL car names for their cars. Why not? Free advertising right? Nope.
Not only does Coca Cola NOT want to pay for that crushed rusty can that ads to immersion, they do NOT want THEIR logo splattered with the brains of the hooker you just killed for a bit of cash.
Oh, and remember one thing please gamers, IF you sanatize your product and make it overrun with ads, you will have the same effect as TV. No, not free money. The gamer audience, that most lucrative market of young adult men leaving for something else. It already happened to TV. Why do you think we game? because there is nothing on tv.
The article mentions that the ads are "only" 4-5 minutes in an hour, hardly anything compared to tv. So what are all the complaints about? Because it won't stop there. Advertisers basically want to chain their customer to their ads, forbid them to leave at pain of pain. They WILL increase the amount watched, make it harder and harder to skip until people finally rebel.
Look at what happened to tv. Innocent commercial blocks have now become so invasive the ads are broadcast OVER the actual program.
If advertisers had their way you would be driving a cola can powered by cola, collecting cola buttons to spend on cola bottles and every single texture is the cola logo. Interrupt every 30 seconds by a 2 minute commercial.
Right now an advertiser is creaming his pants at this wonderful idea. You know it.
That is because they are with me... wait, who are they?
You know your old when you don't regonize any of the names of today's hotties. And think they should cover up their bellies, do they want to catch a cold?
Good job slashdot btw, on holding out the sex comment so long.
Me, I thought of the porn possibilites when I read the first line.
Sony goofed, oh, people love to call names and all, but Nintendo recently did EXACTLY the same. It has everything to do with cost cutting and pressuring developers to push new features while cutting testers because it don't accomplish anyway.
And then you get a bug that slips through you can't just patch in the next version and it all falls apart.
And we are ALL part of it.
We go for cheap. The PS3 sold 1 million extra units when it dropped price. We want our airplane tickets as cheap as possible, so we happily accept that the runways are to short if things go wrong and don't even have a runoff area as long as F1 cars get. That is because we value F1 drivers, not ourselves.
For people who are so confused about the high costs of repairs and spair parts btw. I will tell you that there are TWO kind of products out there:
The VERY cheap to produce and VERY expensively sold, the frames of glasses. They costs pennies to produce but sell for a hundred or more. So, I have personally ripped them apart, to get a spare screw to ship to a customer. it is CHEAPER to tear one apart then keep all the bits in supply.
Then there is the very expensive to produce and cheaply sold. Things like laptops. it costs a fortune to replace an LCD because ALL the costs savings that mass production brought to the laptop are lost in stocking and shipping a single part that a fraction of customers will need AND because it is so expensive, even fewer will buy.
The 360 has an insanely high failure rate, Wii and PS3 have been bricked. PSP had pixel problems. The results of bad engineering trying to cut costs until stuff just falls apart.
The sad thing is that there is almost no alternative. The consoles are all owned by companies who have long since given up on producing a quality product.
People who have both a mac and a windows PC are more likely to have more then one PC?
Gosh, the shock! Can society survive this revelation? The pope is calling for calm, islamic jihadist are calling it a crime of the west. More at eleven, stay tuned!
LCD's can be used in LOTS of places, they are simple and reliable and known tech.
Your thin CRT would have a hard sell, they would be useless in laptops, be very heavy and offer what exactly as a benefit?
People want flat, setting up an entire production facility just for TV's and MAYBE computer screens that you will have to sell with "yes we know it is bloody thick and heavy but it looks much better, well, no, you probably can't see it in the brochure but trust us!".
People want flat. I don't think mosts desks could even hold anything but a thin LCD anymore.
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So, none of that applies. However, claiming you OWN javascript is as silly as claiming you own HTML. Just accept that if it is worth copying, someone will and make your application depend on the service it delivers, not the code itself.
That is the US logic about gun ownership. If you own a gun, criminals (with guns) will stay away from you.
Sure... because no criminal would ever just shoot you if they think you have a gun and just take your money of your corpse.
Iran doesn't want to be invaded so it develops weapons of mass destruction... That worked REALLY well for sadam didn't it (people forget that Saddam might have had any, but constantly pretended that he did).
Sorry, but your logic falls flat in the real world. Countless nations don't have nukes and don't invaded at all.
How reliable? Hard to say. There have been no further attacks since 9/11. The same people who cry about the poor iraqies are the ones who cried about the poor kurds when they were gassed and right now people who protest Iraq are demanding the worlds intercedes in Darfur and ask why the world allowed rwanda to happen.
Remember, that everyone who reports on these issues has an agenda and that includes the intelligence agencies.
And one of their agenda's is that it is NOT in their intrests to tell everyone what they know.
To get an idea of how hard intelligence is, you should watch the movie Tora Tora Tora! It shows the japanese and american actions before the attack on Pearl Harbour. If you don't know your history that well, you might think at one point that the american have cracked it. A major alert is send out that the japanese WILL attack Pearl Harbour and the entire base is put on full alert. On novermber 31st (forgive me if the date is not exact). The real attack happened of course on the 7th of december. The US intelligence had cracked the code, analysed the enemies actions and correctly predicted their plans. Just got the date wrong.
The result? A cry wolf situation. To many "false" alerts, so that when the final one came, it came to late.
Conspiracy theorists, they are listening in on your line, right NOW!
The japanese had none of these problems, they knew the entire time what day they would attack, they only had one thing to worry about, would they be spotted or not?
The defender always has the thougest job. The attacker only has to be lucky once, the defender every single time. A goalie ain't remembered for the ones he stopped but for the ones he let through.
Iraq was one that got through, how much of it was bad luck, bad judgement or policy, that is very hard to say.
In many ways, I think Iraq was a case of american "arrogance". Americans are raised entirely in their own culture. When I grew up in holland, if you wanted to watch a second tv station, you watched either the brits, belgians or germans depending which was closests. Americans have none of this. Their cultural view is really that everywhere outside america "there be dragons".
They thought that they would simply go into Iraq, topple the leadership and everything be fine. They couldn't comprehend that the oppresive regime had been the lid on a boiling pot of tribal resentment. That there were groups who were NOT waiting to taste the american way of life.
I think someone made a phib, they wanted saddam gone, they knew he had used gas in the past and had been looking for other mass destruction tech and so combined the most dangerous bits of info into a very lethal combo that made the worsed case scenario of a worsed case scenario seem like it was happening right now.
We all do it. "If we don't replace the server TODAY, it will BLOW-UP" is often the only way to get management to move. Only in this case, management was the goverment and armies moved.
How much of all this was pre-planned and how much was bad judgement calls depends on your level of belief in the ability of people to govern (I don't believe goverment is clever enough for big conspiracies, incompetent enough to screw up badly however...)
To get back on track, we know that Iran has backed themselves into a corner. They current powers in Iran need a scapegoat, a boogyman to allow them control all activity in Iran (which is making those in power very rich). They know that invading a nation is certainly possible and Iran is a lot less capable then Iraq was. So, they can't afford to take things to far (Israel has bombed them before and can do so again) but they also can't afford to back down.
Nuclear tech ain't all that hard, building a nuclear bomb you can put on a missle is slightly harder but not impossible. Iran would have to be playing some extreme bluff poker if they weren't at least trying. But so what if they got a bomb? It would put them in an impossible situation. Israel ha
Your comment about Palm's PDA at the end would ONLY be valid if Palm tried TO STOP said reverse engineering. They did not.
So, applaus for your high level of apple fanboyism that makes you blind to the fact that your own reverse example misses a key element. Congrats, you win a chance at kissing Jobs ass.
There have been reports which say that places like Atlanta are still paying for the olympics.
Remember that there is a HUGE lobby behind the olympic games and it makes a lot of people look very good, INCLUDING the press. Nothing they love more then being wined and dined at a special event where everyone just has to report from.
The actual economy of the olympics is in far greater doubt when you start talking to people who only have to deal with such simple things as paying for it.
Simplest effect: All hotels filled with tourists? Great or not? Not. Reason? Business people can't find a place to stay. Next year, the tourists are gone and so are the business people.
Look more closely, at the PCB, the other end of it.
If you don't notice any of it, then I pity your boss. IT HAS BEEN CUT OFF! They sawed of the end of a PCB straight through stickers and electronics and you don't see anything wrong?
Mind you, I think what we got here is just a mock-up. That is extremely common. You produce the working prototype that works but is ugly and a mockup that doesn't work but is pretty.
But saying you can't see any goofs in this mock-up means you are either blind or haven't the slightest idea about what you are looking at.
Cut-off PCB.
Ventilation holes that are blocked off.
Connecters that don't connect.
This is a very cheap mock-up. And on the whole, that says a LOT about nVidia.
The PSP Go isn't grasped so much as it lies on the top of your hands. The reason is the sliding top and the shoulder buttons that are on the bottom part. So your fingers can't naturaly "grasp" the top because there the sliding top gets in the way. If you got big fingers, then the PSP Go is lying on top of your hand and that is really akward.
People are not saying UMD is suddenly a wonderfull format, but it is the format that PSP owners got their existing games in, with no way to transfer them. How difficult would it have been to allow transfer from old PSP's to PSP Go's?
The PSP Go is NOT a new platform, there is no generation difference. As said in the Ars review, this would be like making the PS3 Slim 250gb not have a bluray drive.
The problem AIN'T with the digital store itself, it is about the sudden removal of the all the existing games FOR THE EXACT SAME PLATFORM.
Apples iPhone/iThouch NEVER had physical media. And did Apple with the iTouch make it impossible to use songs previously bought with iTunes? No. For Apple to have pulled the same, they would have to create an iPhone store and make it impossible to use iTunes bought songs on it. Hell, for that matter to make it impossible to use mp3's. Has Apple done any of this? No.
But you are right, Apple gets away with far more then Sony does. iTunes and the App store have indeed also meant the end of the bargain bin and 2nd hand songs/software. Non-apple fan boys do indeed mention this from time to time, but get modden down by people who think Jobs is the second coming.
To get back to your main point. Sony had mentioned that there would be some kind of system to get the games you already paid for, to play on the PSP Go. To not allow this (and to have lied about it) means that you got to question who they are aiming at?
1. People who previously didn't buy a PSP? The Go is more expensive, the PS3 gots its sales boost from a price reduction. Does Sony think they can do the same with a price increase?
2. Old PSP owners. They want to play the games they already own and not pay for them again.
3. People with to much money. AKA You. An intresting segment of the market, but in todays economy?
Sorry mate, but I think Sony made a mistake here. The more money then brains market is rather shallow. Most people, especially now, want MORE value for LESS money.
Bit late responding but still. Are you serious? You can't be comparing TF style classes with RPG classes can you?
I know what you mean, but to translate this to RPG terms, this would mean every class has the EXACT same build.
Quake and others give you nine weapons, there are differences and they all got their strengths and weaknesses, but balancing 9 weapons/classes that can't be tweaked any further is far far easier then balance a 9 classes with a dozen build differences and outfites and LEVELS!
Do a simple test, what would happen in TF if a slow class could up its speed?
In a way, you confirm my point. MMO's are to complex to balance, "simple" fps games can do it because there are only a few variables. In a MMORPG, forget it. Play a druid vs a fighter vs a wizard in a D&D rpg.
Google is at war and its goal is the liberate the browsers and allow them to be everything they can be.
Evil Microsoft has poor IE as a hostage and is doing terrible things with it. It could be so much but forced into ghetto conditions it is backwards and idiotic.
Direct war with the evil Microsoft is hard but Google is dropping supplies behind enemy lines to help as much as possible. Luxuries other browsers can take for granted are dropped in the form of javascript libraries so that IE can still at least somewhat come along no matter how slow.
Now with this new weapon of peace the evil Microsoft can be twarthed like never before, every IE that dares can now be free and standup like a real browser with all the features those in the free world have come to taken for granted.
There is not going to be one single succesful strategy to liberate the browser, but liberated it will be. Google needs freedom more then any true american company needs air to breath. The communist Microsoft (All for one OS and one OS for all) shall be vanquished. It will not happen overnight, but it will happen.
For the humor impaired: Google needs fast capable browsers because that is where it does its business. If MS can't produce a capable browser then it got 3 options: advertise other browser (firefox), produce its own to push the cutting edge (Chrome forced firefox to become quicker) and to augment the least capable browsers to support current standards. It will have to push hard from different directions to achieve this but success has already been made. MS has had to work very hard with IE and you can see from their response about this plugin in that they are very scared indeed about the browser becoming more capable.
This battle is NOT about getting people to install Chrome or Firefox, it is about having them surf the web with a capable browser so Google can push new features and not have to constintly cripple their application for an obsolete piece of software.
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Explain US healthcare vs British healthcare then? Why does the commercial US pay more for less and the british social system less for more?
It has a "replica" of what looks like a famous NY street pattern and looks just like it (well like the hollywood versions I have seen anyway) and not a real ad in the entire game.
Sorry, but the story ain't about realistic billboards in the game, advertising don't work that way. The Coca Cola company doesn't want that crushed rusty can that just rolled away to bear its logo, it wants you to sit watching their latest ad for 30 seconds while you want to play the game.
They don't want you to be a F1 driver, watching a yellow line that is your cars hood and maybe see the shell logo clearly in a flash in a replay. They want you to see their commercial, for 30 seconds and possibly more.
So yes, real world games CAN gain some immersion by having real world ads in it. But that is NOT what advertisers want, the opposite in fact. GTA did NOT have permission to use REAL car names for their cars. Why not? Free advertising right? Nope.
Not only does Coca Cola NOT want to pay for that crushed rusty can that ads to immersion, they do NOT want THEIR logo splattered with the brains of the hooker you just killed for a bit of cash.
Oh, and remember one thing please gamers, IF you sanatize your product and make it overrun with ads, you will have the same effect as TV. No, not free money. The gamer audience, that most lucrative market of young adult men leaving for something else. It already happened to TV. Why do you think we game? because there is nothing on tv.
The article mentions that the ads are "only" 4-5 minutes in an hour, hardly anything compared to tv. So what are all the complaints about? Because it won't stop there. Advertisers basically want to chain their customer to their ads, forbid them to leave at pain of pain. They WILL increase the amount watched, make it harder and harder to skip until people finally rebel.
Look at what happened to tv. Innocent commercial blocks have now become so invasive the ads are broadcast OVER the actual program.
If advertisers had their way you would be driving a cola can powered by cola, collecting cola buttons to spend on cola bottles and every single texture is the cola logo. Interrupt every 30 seconds by a 2 minute commercial.
Right now an advertiser is creaming his pants at this wonderful idea. You know it.
That is because they are with me... wait, who are they?
You know your old when you don't regonize any of the names of today's hotties. And think they should cover up their bellies, do they want to catch a cold?
Good job slashdot btw, on holding out the sex comment so long.
Me, I thought of the porn possibilites when I read the first line.
Sony goofed, oh, people love to call names and all, but Nintendo recently did EXACTLY the same. It has everything to do with cost cutting and pressuring developers to push new features while cutting testers because it don't accomplish anyway.
And then you get a bug that slips through you can't just patch in the next version and it all falls apart.
And we are ALL part of it.
We go for cheap. The PS3 sold 1 million extra units when it dropped price. We want our airplane tickets as cheap as possible, so we happily accept that the runways are to short if things go wrong and don't even have a runoff area as long as F1 cars get. That is because we value F1 drivers, not ourselves.
For people who are so confused about the high costs of repairs and spair parts btw. I will tell you that there are TWO kind of products out there:
The VERY cheap to produce and VERY expensively sold, the frames of glasses. They costs pennies to produce but sell for a hundred or more. So, I have personally ripped them apart, to get a spare screw to ship to a customer. it is CHEAPER to tear one apart then keep all the bits in supply.
Then there is the very expensive to produce and cheaply sold. Things like laptops. it costs a fortune to replace an LCD because ALL the costs savings that mass production brought to the laptop are lost in stocking and shipping a single part that a fraction of customers will need AND because it is so expensive, even fewer will buy.
The 360 has an insanely high failure rate, Wii and PS3 have been bricked. PSP had pixel problems. The results of bad engineering trying to cut costs until stuff just falls apart.
The sad thing is that there is almost no alternative. The consoles are all owned by companies who have long since given up on producing a quality product.
After all, you spend time and energy getting it fixed. Or does that logic only work for MS-fanboys complaining about Linux?
People who have both a mac and a windows PC are more likely to have more then one PC?
Gosh, the shock! Can society survive this revelation? The pope is calling for calm, islamic jihadist are calling it a crime of the west. More at eleven, stay tuned!
Because YOU have snow, NOBODY can use solar panels.
The world does NOT revolve around you, it revolves around ME!
LCD's can be used in LOTS of places, they are simple and reliable and known tech.
Your thin CRT would have a hard sell, they would be useless in laptops, be very heavy and offer what exactly as a benefit?
People want flat, setting up an entire production facility just for TV's and MAYBE computer screens that you will have to sell with "yes we know it is bloody thick and heavy but it looks much better, well, no, you probably can't see it in the brochure but trust us!".
People want flat. I don't think mosts desks could even hold anything but a thin LCD anymore.
So, none of that applies. However, claiming you OWN javascript is as silly as claiming you own HTML. Just accept that if it is worth copying, someone will and make your application depend on the service it delivers, not the code itself.
Most quality bookstores have got seats next to the shelves, so you can read the book in comfort.
Same as most record shops had seats with headphones were you could listen to a record before buying.
Everything old is new again.
That is the US logic about gun ownership. If you own a gun, criminals (with guns) will stay away from you.
Sure... because no criminal would ever just shoot you if they think you have a gun and just take your money of your corpse.
Iran doesn't want to be invaded so it develops weapons of mass destruction... That worked REALLY well for sadam didn't it (people forget that Saddam might have had any, but constantly pretended that he did).
Sorry, but your logic falls flat in the real world. Countless nations don't have nukes and don't invaded at all.
How reliable? Hard to say. There have been no further attacks since 9/11. The same people who cry about the poor iraqies are the ones who cried about the poor kurds when they were gassed and right now people who protest Iraq are demanding the worlds intercedes in Darfur and ask why the world allowed rwanda to happen.
Remember, that everyone who reports on these issues has an agenda and that includes the intelligence agencies.
And one of their agenda's is that it is NOT in their intrests to tell everyone what they know.
To get an idea of how hard intelligence is, you should watch the movie Tora Tora Tora! It shows the japanese and american actions before the attack on Pearl Harbour. If you don't know your history that well, you might think at one point that the american have cracked it. A major alert is send out that the japanese WILL attack Pearl Harbour and the entire base is put on full alert. On novermber 31st (forgive me if the date is not exact). The real attack happened of course on the 7th of december. The US intelligence had cracked the code, analysed the enemies actions and correctly predicted their plans. Just got the date wrong.
The result? A cry wolf situation. To many "false" alerts, so that when the final one came, it came to late.
Conspiracy theorists, they are listening in on your line, right NOW!
The japanese had none of these problems, they knew the entire time what day they would attack, they only had one thing to worry about, would they be spotted or not?
The defender always has the thougest job. The attacker only has to be lucky once, the defender every single time. A goalie ain't remembered for the ones he stopped but for the ones he let through.
Iraq was one that got through, how much of it was bad luck, bad judgement or policy, that is very hard to say.
In many ways, I think Iraq was a case of american "arrogance". Americans are raised entirely in their own culture. When I grew up in holland, if you wanted to watch a second tv station, you watched either the brits, belgians or germans depending which was closests. Americans have none of this. Their cultural view is really that everywhere outside america "there be dragons".
They thought that they would simply go into Iraq, topple the leadership and everything be fine. They couldn't comprehend that the oppresive regime had been the lid on a boiling pot of tribal resentment. That there were groups who were NOT waiting to taste the american way of life.
I think someone made a phib, they wanted saddam gone, they knew he had used gas in the past and had been looking for other mass destruction tech and so combined the most dangerous bits of info into a very lethal combo that made the worsed case scenario of a worsed case scenario seem like it was happening right now.
We all do it. "If we don't replace the server TODAY, it will BLOW-UP" is often the only way to get management to move. Only in this case, management was the goverment and armies moved.
How much of all this was pre-planned and how much was bad judgement calls depends on your level of belief in the ability of people to govern (I don't believe goverment is clever enough for big conspiracies, incompetent enough to screw up badly however...)
To get back on track, we know that Iran has backed themselves into a corner. They current powers in Iran need a scapegoat, a boogyman to allow them control all activity in Iran (which is making those in power very rich). They know that invading a nation is certainly possible and Iran is a lot less capable then Iraq was. So, they can't afford to take things to far (Israel has bombed them before and can do so again) but they also can't afford to back down.
Nuclear tech ain't all that hard, building a nuclear bomb you can put on a missle is slightly harder but not impossible. Iran would have to be playing some extreme bluff poker if they weren't at least trying. But so what if they got a bomb? It would put them in an impossible situation. Israel ha
Your comment about Palm's PDA at the end would ONLY be valid if Palm tried TO STOP said reverse engineering. They did not.
So, applaus for your high level of apple fanboyism that makes you blind to the fact that your own reverse example misses a key element. Congrats, you win a chance at kissing Jobs ass.
Fap Fap Fap... what this isn't 4chan?
There have been reports which say that places like Atlanta are still paying for the olympics.
Remember that there is a HUGE lobby behind the olympic games and it makes a lot of people look very good, INCLUDING the press. Nothing they love more then being wined and dined at a special event where everyone just has to report from.
The actual economy of the olympics is in far greater doubt when you start talking to people who only have to deal with such simple things as paying for it.
Simplest effect: All hotels filled with tourists? Great or not? Not. Reason? Business people can't find a place to stay. Next year, the tourists are gone and so are the business people.
There, didn't think about that did you? Care about your enviroment, shoot crack.
Look more closely, at the PCB, the other end of it.
If you don't notice any of it, then I pity your boss. IT HAS BEEN CUT OFF! They sawed of the end of a PCB straight through stickers and electronics and you don't see anything wrong?
Mind you, I think what we got here is just a mock-up. That is extremely common. You produce the working prototype that works but is ugly and a mockup that doesn't work but is pretty.
But saying you can't see any goofs in this mock-up means you are either blind or haven't the slightest idea about what you are looking at.
Cut-off PCB.
Ventilation holes that are blocked off.
Connecters that don't connect.
This is a very cheap mock-up. And on the whole, that says a LOT about nVidia.
I bet your get really tired of people constantly making "woosh" noises at you, don't you?
WOOOSH!
Do you know why people burn-out so quickly nowadays? No more coffee-breaks while compiling or waiting for a print-job.
Many office worker happily recharged with a cup of joe listening to the gentle banging of the line printer churning out reams of paper.
Ah, happy days... [puts on MP3 of line-printer]
The PSP Go isn't grasped so much as it lies on the top of your hands. The reason is the sliding top and the shoulder buttons that are on the bottom part. So your fingers can't naturaly "grasp" the top because there the sliding top gets in the way. If you got big fingers, then the PSP Go is lying on top of your hand and that is really akward.
People are not saying UMD is suddenly a wonderfull format, but it is the format that PSP owners got their existing games in, with no way to transfer them. How difficult would it have been to allow transfer from old PSP's to PSP Go's?
The PSP Go is NOT a new platform, there is no generation difference. As said in the Ars review, this would be like making the PS3 Slim 250gb not have a bluray drive.
The problem AIN'T with the digital store itself, it is about the sudden removal of the all the existing games FOR THE EXACT SAME PLATFORM.
Apples iPhone/iThouch NEVER had physical media. And did Apple with the iTouch make it impossible to use songs previously bought with iTunes? No. For Apple to have pulled the same, they would have to create an iPhone store and make it impossible to use iTunes bought songs on it. Hell, for that matter to make it impossible to use mp3's. Has Apple done any of this? No.
But you are right, Apple gets away with far more then Sony does. iTunes and the App store have indeed also meant the end of the bargain bin and 2nd hand songs/software. Non-apple fan boys do indeed mention this from time to time, but get modden down by people who think Jobs is the second coming.
To get back to your main point. Sony had mentioned that there would be some kind of system to get the games you already paid for, to play on the PSP Go. To not allow this (and to have lied about it) means that you got to question who they are aiming at?
1. People who previously didn't buy a PSP? The Go is more expensive, the PS3 gots its sales boost from a price reduction. Does Sony think they can do the same with a price increase?
2. Old PSP owners. They want to play the games they already own and not pay for them again.
3. People with to much money. AKA You. An intresting segment of the market, but in todays economy?
Sorry mate, but I think Sony made a mistake here. The more money then brains market is rather shallow. Most people, especially now, want MORE value for LESS money.
So, you would have a poor person who can only afford an old petrol car pay MORE tax then Bill Gates who can afford to buy an electric car?
Somehow I think that you won't have to worry about being cold in the after life.
Eve is tiny. Meridian 59 also still has an audience, as does UO and the original Everquest.
Champions Online did NOT aim to be a niche game. It aims to compete with the big boy. I would say boys but there really only is one.
In my opinion it will quickly fall down to be another also ran.
If your goal is 300.000 subscribers, then getting 300.000 is good especially if you keep growing slowly. That is what Eve does.
If your goal is 1million+ and you get 300.000, then it ain't good. That is what I think CO is going to do.
Ask SOE about this, they are very experienced with the process.
Bit late responding but still. Are you serious? You can't be comparing TF style classes with RPG classes can you?
I know what you mean, but to translate this to RPG terms, this would mean every class has the EXACT same build.
Quake and others give you nine weapons, there are differences and they all got their strengths and weaknesses, but balancing 9 weapons/classes that can't be tweaked any further is far far easier then balance a 9 classes with a dozen build differences and outfites and LEVELS!
Do a simple test, what would happen in TF if a slow class could up its speed?
In a way, you confirm my point. MMO's are to complex to balance, "simple" fps games can do it because there are only a few variables. In a MMORPG, forget it. Play a druid vs a fighter vs a wizard in a D&D rpg.
Google is at war and its goal is the liberate the browsers and allow them to be everything they can be.
Evil Microsoft has poor IE as a hostage and is doing terrible things with it. It could be so much but forced into ghetto conditions it is backwards and idiotic.
Direct war with the evil Microsoft is hard but Google is dropping supplies behind enemy lines to help as much as possible. Luxuries other browsers can take for granted are dropped in the form of javascript libraries so that IE can still at least somewhat come along no matter how slow.
Now with this new weapon of peace the evil Microsoft can be twarthed like never before, every IE that dares can now be free and standup like a real browser with all the features those in the free world have come to taken for granted.
There is not going to be one single succesful strategy to liberate the browser, but liberated it will be. Google needs freedom more then any true american company needs air to breath. The communist Microsoft (All for one OS and one OS for all) shall be vanquished. It will not happen overnight, but it will happen.
For the humor impaired: Google needs fast capable browsers because that is where it does its business. If MS can't produce a capable browser then it got 3 options: advertise other browser (firefox), produce its own to push the cutting edge (Chrome forced firefox to become quicker) and to augment the least capable browsers to support current standards. It will have to push hard from different directions to achieve this but success has already been made. MS has had to work very hard with IE and you can see from their response about this plugin in that they are very scared indeed about the browser becoming more capable.
This battle is NOT about getting people to install Chrome or Firefox, it is about having them surf the web with a capable browser so Google can push new features and not have to constintly cripple their application for an obsolete piece of software.
The world is a big place, if your part of it fits on a small list, then you ain't all that big. Logic, it sucks doesn't it?